Los Angeles, Oct. 18 (CWNews.com) - A consultant to the Vatican has said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has incurred the penalty of excommunication from the Catholic Church.
The consultant made his statement in a highly unusual letter to Marc Balestrieri, a Los Angeles canon lawyer who formally sued John Kerry in ecclesiastical court for heresy.
Balestrieri, who launched his case earlier this year by filing a heresy complaint in Kerry's home archdiocese of Boston, told EWTN's "World Over" program on Friday that he had received an unusual, indirect communication from the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding the pro-abortion stance...
Divorcing his first wife put him on the RADAR of the Vatican because he was raised Catholic and was married in the church. Getting remarried made him an outcast. This is long coming but understandably delayed considering the skeleton's the Church has in its closets. :eek:
Divorcing his first wife put him on the RADAR of the Vatican because he was raised Catholic and was married in the church. Getting remarried made him an outcast. This is long coming but understandably delayed considering the skeleton's the Church has in its closets. :eek:
You mean like massacring all the "savages" and stealing their land?
I was just talking to one of my friends today & told him that many (mainly white?) people were very upset to be evicted from the blue ridge mountains to establish the Shenandoah National Park. I then told him that the native americans know that feeling only too well. The park SAVED the land, although nobody can live there now. 10's of 1000's, each year, are able to travel through the park which would not be as vibrant if it were'nt for the federal protection.
Why, exactly, is support for the death penalty not grounds for excommunication (if, indeed, the originally posted story is true) but abortion is? Yes, it is typically murderers, etc. (although some may be innocent), but from what I know about Catholic doctrine, killing is killing and is never justified except for in very, very special cases.
